On this day in 1986, Debra Janine Thomas won the Ladies Singles crown in the World Figure Skating Championships in Geneva, Switzerland.


The Sharpeville Massacre was perhaps the first time that the world had seen the evil of apartheid. On this day in 1960, South African Police fired into peaceful protesters at a police station. 69 died, and 180 were injured.

On this day in 1990, Namibia, formerly Southwest Africa, got its freedom from South Africa.

Henry Ossian Flipper was a soldier, engineer, and the first Black graduate of the US Military Academy. He was born into slavery on this day in 1856 in Thomasville, Georgia.

Chinua Achebe, a world-famous novelist, essayist, and commentator, whose books on African life before colonialism have been translated into many languages, died on this day in 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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